UN says dozens of bodies discovered in a section of Libyan capital run by armed militia

The United Nations quality rights bureau has expressed concerns astir the find of dozens of bodies successful an country of Libya’s superior controlled by an equipped militia

GENEVA -- The United Nations quality rights bureau expressed concerns connected Wednesday astir the find of dozens of bodies, immoderate charred and buried and others successful infirmary refrigerators, successful an country of Libya’s superior controlled by an equipped militia whose person was killed past month.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said helium was shocked by revelations that gross rights violations were uncovered astatine detention facilities successful Tripoli tally by the Stabilization Support Authority, oregon SSA, an equipped radical whose commandant Abdel-Ghani al-Kikli, was killed successful militia warring successful mid-May.

The rights bureau said it aboriginal received accusation connected the excavation of 10 charred bodies astatine the SSA office successful the Abu Salim vicinity and different 67 bodies discovered successful refrigerators successful the Abu Salim and Al Khadra hospitals. It besides cited reports of a burial tract astatine the Tripoli Zoo that was tally by the SSA.

The bureau said the identities of the bodies were not instantly clear.

“Our worst held fears are being confirmed: dozens of bodies person been discovered astatine these sites, on with the find of suspected instruments of torture and abuse, and imaginable grounds of extrajudicial killings,” Türk said successful a statement.

Türk called connected authorities to seal the country to sphere grounds and said determination needed to beryllium accountability for the killings. He said the U.N. should beryllium granted entree to the sites to papers rights violations.

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